Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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OF LAKE FOREST COLLEGE Volume XXXIII. LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS, November 1, 1918. NUMBERS 1 822. Dr' Raymond The Students' Arm Training Lake Forest College was unusually fortunate this year in securing Dr. Raymond to fill the places left va cant by the absence of Dr. Halsey and Professor Burnap. Dr. Raymond is a graduate of Northwestern Uni- versity, but received his Ph. D. at the University of Chicago. For the last five years he has lectured in Political Science at the University of Cali- fornia. Previously he was a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago. Dr. Raymond has traveled extensively in Europe and Asia. He has spent a year in India, and has visited Egypt, Asia, Japan and Tur- key as well as Russia, Finland, Ice- land, Norway, Sweden, Spain and Portugal. This year Dr. Raymond was engaged to lecture in New York City, Philadelphia, and other eastern cities and also at several western universities. He has canceled these engagements and is giving us the benent of his wide experience and knowledge in Economics and in the War Aims Course. Girls, War Work Organized Under the able direction of Miss Hamilton the girls of Lois Durand Hall have formed an organization for war relief work. Knitting, Red Cross work, Y. W. C. A. work, and buying of thrift stamps and liberty bonds are some of the things they intend to do. The organization is headed by an executive committee consisting of Harriet Harris, ex oflicio chairman, Ruth Stommel, Eloise Brown, Sarah Moore, Eleanor Goble, Sarah Fisher, Helen Lockard, and Lucy Knox. A start toward active work has al- ready been made. The girls have divided into squads and have signed up for regular hours at the Village Red Cross Rooms. Thrift stamps are being sold on the campus twice a. week. Owing to the quarantine the girls were rather late in getting started in the Liberty Bond Campaign but a committee of Lois Durand For over a month the Lake Forest unit of the Students' Army Training Corps consisting of about one hun- dred and fifty men, has been operat- ing under the new system prescribed by the War Department. With the unusual natural advantages and splendid equipment of the College, this unit should be one of the most successful ones in this part of the country. Visitors to the campus who have observed conditions at large universities and other colleges have been very emphatic in their expres- sions of surprise and pleasure over the unusually smooth and successful operation of the army system here. At present there are three commis- sioned odicers on the grounds: Lieut. Thompson, commander of the post, Lieut, Axelrod, personnel adjutant, and Lieut. Brown in charge of ord- nance. The courses of study have been laid out according to the plan pre- scribed by the government. The men are divided into age-groups and have a choice between programs of study preparing them for different branches of the service. Due to the unusually large number of students taking courses in the Department of Mathematics and Romance Languages it has been found necessary to ap- point additional instructors. Profes- sor McNeill has secured the assis- tance of Mr. Curzin, an experienced teacher of mathematics, and Profes- sor Van Steenderen has added Mr. Gould to the stan of his department. Through long residence and contin- ued study in France and Italy Mr. Gould has become an efficient teacher of the languages of the two countries. While many institutions have only hastily constructed wooden shacks for barracks and mess hall, Lake Forest has ample room in modern dormitor- ies and a finely appointed men's com- mons, large enough to serve as mess hall for the whole unit. The campus affords extensive grounds for pur- poses of drill, its broken and varied expanse, with deep ravines, making it possible to carry out many diner- ent military exercises. The gym- nasium is large enough for purposes of drill in inclement weather. Fur- thermore, the Fort Sheridan rifle ranges are within easy walking dis- tance. These advantages impressed one visiting odicer so strongly that he remarked with enthusiasm, I should like nothing better after the war than to be Professor of Military Science and Tactics in a college like this. A large part of the main door of College Hall has been taken over by the Military Department. At the north end are the offices of the com- mander and personnel adjutantg ad- jacent are Lieut. Thon:1pson's lecture room and an ordnance store room. It is now proposed to merge the Col- lege Book Store in a Post Exchange under army control where the usual small necessaries and luxuries will be sold. Military drill and campus life has been enlivened by music from the military band which has been organ- ized from the members of the S.A. T.C. It is being carried on under very efhcient leadership and is an im- portant factor in producing the spirit and pep necessary for carrying out the army routine. girls succeeded in selling 51800 worth of bonds to sixteen subscribers. The girls are all earnest and en- thusiastic about the work. They all feel that with conditions as they are it is up to each one to make the most of every bit of her time. We are ex- pecting great things from them this lyear. 7 .CDC-lg, Mildred Zenos spent last week-end at her home in Chicago. Ruth Bridgman's father visited her last week-end. Doris McDowell was the guest of Lorraine Maclay. Ruth Kennedy entertained her mother last week-end.